Cambridge Welcoming Ministries

Dear Cambridge Welcoming:

Please find below an announcement from our friends at Boston University School of Theology:

“WHAT’S NEXT? GENERAL CONFERENCE AND BEYOND”

Wednesday, May 16
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Hartman Room
Boston University School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA
(BU Central Green Line stop)

Dear STH Community,

Many of you have asked about the United Methodist General Conference 2012, wondering what it means for the UMC and for other churches and Christian peoples in the U.S. and around the world.

Panelists will share their perspectives on General Conference 2012 and “what’s next,” and you will have an opportunity to bring your own questions and perspectives.

Nourishing refreshments will be served. All are welcome!

PANELISTS
Rev. Cristian De La Rosa
Dean Mary Elizabeth Moore
Dean Pamela Lightsey
Bishop Susan Hassinger

Lent begins with Ash Wednesday tomorrow.

#OccupyAshWednesday will happen in Dewey Square from noon-3pm and will include ashes, readings, peaceful vigil, handouts for passers-by with suggestions for keeping Lent in solidarity with the economically distressed. All are welcome. Clergy are invited to vest.

Cambridge Welcoming will be having its Ash Wednesday service at 8pm in the Parlor of Somerville Community Baptist Church in Davis Square (31 College Avenue Somerville, Massachusetts 02144 – handicap accessible).

SCBC’s Rev. Adrienne Berry-Burton, an apprentice with The Labyrinth Guild of New England, will have a small 15′ five-crcuit labyrinth set up in the Fellowship Hall of SCBC from 5 – 8 PM on Ash Wednesday. She will do a brief instruction at 5:00 and then from 5:30 – 8PM it will be an Open Walk. There will be finger labyrinths for those who may find walking it difficult, circles of chairs for personal meditation in the midst, and a space for written reflection. (Walking the labyrinth is not a must.)

During Lent, CWM will be doing a thematic sermon+worship series based on Blair Gilmer Meeks’ Season of Ash and Fire: Prayers and Liturgies for Lent and Easter.

The schedule is below:

[Lent 1] February 26 (in the “upstairs” ground-level Vestry space)
Wilderness
Mark 1:9-15
Pr. Lisa preaching

[Lent 2] March 4 (in CWM’s downstairs worship space)
The Cross
Mark 8:31-38
Elizabeth Sweeny preaching

[Lent 3] March 11 (downstairs)
Water
Matthew 3:13-17
Pr. Lisa preaching

[Lent 4] March 18 (downstairs)
Light
John 3:14-21
Cassandra Marsh preaching

[Lent 5] March 25 (upstairs)
Stalks of Wheat
John 12:20-33
LaTayna Purnell preaching

[Palm/Passion Sunday] March 1 (downstairs)
Palms & Branches
Mark 14:1-15:47
reader’s theater

[Good Friday] April 6
There will not be a full Good Friday service, but Pr. Lisa is happy to keep vigil in the Harvard-Epworth Sanctuary from 3-6pm.  (Cambridge has a Stations of the City from noon-3pm.)

[Easter Sunday] April 8 (upstairs)
Pr. Lisa preaching

From Occupy to Organize: Turning General Assemblies into Popular Assemblies

Two days of community organizing trainings with longtime organizers and community groups

Saturday, February 18 & Saturday, March 10
From 2 to 5 PM, Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston Street

*Organize our neighborhoods & build popular power in our communities & schools*

- Learn lessons from popular assemblies around the world & plan together a popular assembly in Boston
- Turn public support into greater public involvement with ways to engage broader participation beyond activist circles
- Reach the 99% with organizing tools that go beyond Facebook to face to face: sharing your story, listening campaigns, door to door outreach, One on Ones & house meetings
- Connect common concerns to build bonds of solidarity & strategies to support those most impacted by economic injustice.

Transforming the Conversation: LGBTQIA Narratives, Theologies, and Action

BU School of Theology, Room 325 (the Faculty Lounge)
745 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA

3 panels in a series –

February 16, Thursday, 6-8 PM
Panel One: Transformational Narrative(s)

February 23, Thursday, 6-8 PM
Panel Two: Transformational Theology

March 1, Thursday, 6-8 PM
Panel Three: Transformational Action

For more information, please read the flyer here or visit the BU event page.

An e-mail R.S.V.P. to sacred@bu.edu is appreciated, but not required. [Facebook event link.]

We invite you to join us at 5pm tonight for worship at Episcopal Divinity School.

The service will be at 5pm and will include worship led by a former MCC Boston Senior pastor and a light meal/community building time.

We’re meeting in the Tyler Room in Burnham Hall at EDS (99 Brattle Street). Parking is right off of Brattle Street in lot P. A map is here (Burnham Hall is the red-coded building with the shield icon on it).